Fans can take a tiny sneak peak of that album now via a video trailer for Cowards track "Die By The Drop." The full video, says the trailer, will hit iTunes on April 6, with the album following on May 11 via White's Nashville-based Third Man Records. Watch the "Drop" trailer below.

But he's apparently got another enticing collaboration coming: White told the UK's GQ magazine that he just did a record with rap titan Jay-Z.

"We did a song together a few weeks ago. It was incredible," White told the magazine. "I played him something that I've been kicking around for a while and he immediately came out with words for it. It's unbelievable-sounding."

White didn't share a release date, but given his tendency to keep work flowing, odds are it won't be too long a wait. (Incidentally, the White Stripes documentary Under Great White Northern Lightscame out yesterday, on March 16.)

As noted previously, the long-talked-about White Stripes tour documentary Under Great White Northern Lights -- which chronicles the two-piece's extensive Canadian run in 2007 -- is due out on DVD on March 16. A limited edition box set features a heavy collection of other Stripes extras, too; read more about that here.

If you're averse to a solo screening of the film, you're in luck -- showings and screenings are happening around the country on the 16th, either via AMC Theaters or the host-your-own-screening option being wrangled online (peruse options HERE).

A unique one's planned for Nashville on that day: a "Secret White Stripes Day Sneak Peek."

Details are limited at the moment, it being a "secret" screening and all, but we at least know that it's intended for "hardcore White Stripes Fans" and that the time and place will be announced to fans who RSVP to the event via whitestripes.bside.com.

There's a bonus to participating, too: Fans who sign up at that site under the "Be Part of The Tour" header and convince friends to RSVP too get in the running for a prize cache that includes a copy of the aforementioned Northern Lights box set, a signed DVD and a T-shirt. To win, you'll indeed need to be pretty hardcore: You'll have to get the most friends signed up for the secret screening. Learn more about that HERE.

The rockabilly queen's Third Man release fits White's penchant for embracing the past and future equally -- her single features two cover tunes: Amy Winehouse's "You Know I'm No Good" and classic Johnny Kidd and the Pirates hit "Shakin' All Over."

"They had a super album, but he didn’t have her do anything different, you know,” Jackson told The Oklahoman about Van Lear. "She just did her little Loretta Lynn songs. But he told me he’s gonna stretch me some, so we’ll see.”

And come January 26, so will you, as the single comes out both on vinyl and via iTunes.

Jackson's single isn't the only new Third Man release coming through on that day. The label will also issue a single from a new band called The Black Belles, whose MySpace page and website reveal few details, other than the fact that they're from Nashville, have four members and like hats. Third Man categorizes the band's debut release -- “What Can I Do” and “Lies” -- as capturing "a modern twist to a sound heavily rooted in the soul and garage rock of the 60’s."

In their decade wrap-up issue, Rolling Stone outlined the artists they felt "defined the 2000s," and Nashvillian Jack White is among those "artists of the decade," along with U2, M.I.A., Arcade Fire, Beyonce, Kanye West and Radiohead.

While White shares some bleak -- and blunt -- commentary on the music industry, the multi-skilled star's comments on his Nashville-rooted Third Man Records label might brighten some hometown moods.

"If people are even thinking that the idea of an album is dying, that people can come to Nashville," White tells Rolling Stone. "I'll produce a song with them and have it on vinyl within two or three weeks — and on MP3 as well." (Now don't you all rush him at once.)

Folks who put in their cash to subscribe to Third Man Records' the Vault service at the Platinum level are probably pretty glad right now.

The Nashville label, headed up by White Stripes/Raconteurs/Dead Weather member Jack White, is releasing some ultra-rare nuggets to those subscribers, including outtakes from the White Stripes' debut 7-inch sessions, a live vinyl release from the Raconteurs and a limited edition screen-print poster from the Dead Weather.

The Stripes release comes from a 1998 session, and includes alternate versions of "Let's Shake Hands" and B-side “Look Me Over Closely."

The live Raconteurs release is a two-LP gatefold collection dubbed The Raconteurs, Live in London, and it captures a 2008 London stop from the band -- which also features Nashville singer-songwriter Brendan Benson and fellow Nashvillians Jack Lawrence and Patrick Keeler.

This stuff all comes as part of the Vault service that Third Man launched some months back -- folks who sign up for the Platinum level get a bunch of exclusive goods, including T-shirts, screen prints and vinyl releases, every three months. Registration is open through October 22 for those who'd like to jump on now. Sign up via the label's official site.

Pop voice Kelly Clarkson's been pulling out some compelling covers on her latest tour, including some total stylistic reworkings of tunes from some of Middle Tennessee rock's finest.

On the list of recent Clarkson covers: a propulsive re-imagination of the White Stripes' "Seven Nation Army," and a mash-up of local successes Kings of Leon's "Use Somebody" with Alanis Morissette's “That I Would Be Good.” Check below and after the jump for video evidence, with a hat tip to Idolator.

Malloy was commenting about his use of footage from Orson Welles' Citizen Kane, when White snatched the microphone, saying, "I'm gonna let you finish, I'm gonna let you finish, but Orson Welles did one of the greatest films of all time!"

If you'd like to get a little further pumped up for guitar-hero rock doc It Might Get Loud -- which chronicles Nashville's White Stripe/Raconteur/Dead Weather man Jack White, along with U2's The Edge and Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page, and opens in Nashville on September 25 -- check out Sony Pictures' new widget, embedded below and stocked with info and content related to the film.

On the list of places to eyeball the new documentary -- which offers a whole lot of loud guitar playing and a fair share of back story on its three guitar heroes -- is the Green Hills Commons 16.